Repair and Renovation of Faculty Laboratory Facilities at a Comprehensive Public University

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。 该奖项支持一个翻新项目，为一所综合性公立大学的化学和物理系研究人员使用的50年历史的实验室设施提供关键维修和翻新。此次改造将把联合收割机相关的研究领域和专业合并到该部门的两个研究中心，一个致力于分析和法医化学，另一个致力于材料研究。实验室设备和仪器也将在中心战略性地集中在一起，以便教师和学生在工作中最有可能使用它们。 每个研究中心将在翻新期间通过合并较小的研究实验室和其他房间进行组装。 翻新还将为当前的教师研究提供安全，充足的设施，将改善新的研究教师的招聘，并将提供机会，指导和整合学生学员在教师研究。 该大学的大部分服务区包括密西西比三角洲和密苏里州“Bootheel”的农村，经济萧条地区，其中高于平均水平的贫困和失业率，再加上地理隔离，限制了教育成就和经济稳定的机会。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This award supports a renovation project to provide critical repairs and renovations to a 50-year old laboratory facility utilized by Chemistry and Physics faculty researchers at a comprehensive, public university. The renovation will combine related research areas and specializations into two research centers within the department, one devoted to analytical and forensic chemistry and one devoted to materials research. Laboratory equipment and instrumentation will also be grouped together strategically in the centers so that they are readily available to the faculty and students most likely to use them in their work. Each research center will be assembled during the renovation by the consolidation of smaller research labs and other rooms. The renovation will also provide safe, sufficient facilities for current faculty research, will improve recruitment of new research faculty, and will provide opportunities to mentor and integrate student trainees in faculty research. The majority of the University's service area includes a rural, economically depressed region of the Mississippi Delta and Missouri 'Bootheel," in which higher than average poverty and unemployment rates, coupled with geographic isolation, limit opportunities for educational attainment and economic stability.